Schedule
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8:00 - All Day Registration [Porthania, Lobby. Address: Yliopistonkatu 3]
9:00 - 11:30 Committee meetings [Metsätalo. Address: Unioninkatu 40]
9:00 - 10:00 Diversity & Inclusion [B310, hall 11, 3. floor]
10:00 - 11:30 Communications Cmte. [B312, hall 9, 3. floor]
10:00 - 11:30 Artificial Intelligence [B302, hall 5, 3. floor]
10:00 - 11:30 Energy Community - Draft Sequel Report on ‘Towards Low-GHG emissions from energy use in selected sectors’ (2022)[B502, hall 24, 5. floor]
10:00 - 11:30 Engineering Education [B524, hall 5, 5. floor]
10:00 - 11:30 Engineering for SDGs [B310, hall 11, 3. floor]
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch [Porthania]
13:00 - 17:00 Board Meeting [Porthania, P722] (15:05 - 15:20 Coffee)
18:00 - 19:30 Cocktail Reception [Helsinki City Hall. Address: Pohjoisesplanadi 11–13]
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Public symposium “Carbon Neutral Technologies and Society”
8:00 - All Day Registration [8–12 Main Building of the University of Helsinki. Address: Aleksanterinkatu 5. 12–17 Porthania, Lobby. Address: Yliopistonkatu 3]
Moderator: Jan Andersson
9:00 - 9:35 Opening ceremony [The Great Hall, Main Building of the University of Helsinki]
Mika Hannula, President of CAETS
Sari Multala, Minister of Science and Culture
Mikko Hupa, Chair of the Council of Finnish Academies9:35 - 10:25 Keynote: Peter D. Lund - Accelerating the energy transition through stronger systems view
10:25 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:30 Keynote: Andrea Ramírez Ramírez - Beyond incremental change. A systems perspective to defossilizing industrial clusters
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch [Porthania]
Parallel sessions:
13:00 - 14:15 Academic Session 1: Carbon neutral technology [Porthania, PIII]
13:00 - 13:25 Neven Duic - The role of flexibility in decarbonisation of energy systems
13:25 - 13:50 Ville Tulkki - Small modular reactors enabling carbon free industries
13:50 - 14:15 Henrik Saxén - Decarbonation of steel industry - challenges and opportunities
13:00 - 14:15 ExpandFibre Session:
Accelerating the development of sustainable bioproducts [Porthania, Suomen Laki]
13:00 - 13:05 Opening the session (host TBC)
13:05 - 13:45 Heli Antila (VP, Biobased solutions at Fortum) & Niklas von Weymarn (CEO at Metsä Spring) - Insights from the ExpandFibre leaders
13:45 - 14:15 Kristiina Kruus (Dean at School of Chemical Engineering at Aalto University) - Collaboration between academia & industry in Finland14:15 - 14:45 Coffee
(Exhibition by Aalto CHEMARTS & Aalto University Bioinnovation Centre [Porthania, lobby])14:45 - 16:00 Academic Session 2: Energy and society [PIII]
14:45 - 15:10 Eeva-Lotta Apajalahti - Societal impacts of energy transition
15:10 - 15:35 Paula Kivimaa - Security in Sustainable Energy Transitions
15:35 - 16:00 Pasi Vainikka - title TBA
14:45 - 16:00 ExpandFibre Session continues [Suomen Laki]
14:45 - 15:15 Antti Vasara (President & CEO at VTT) - Transforming scientific research into practical innovations
15:15 - 16:00 Panel discussion: Scaling up new bioproducts
Moderator:
Andreas Lindberg (Project Manager at Spinverse)
Panelists:
Niklas von Weymarn (CEO at Metsä Spring)
Tuomas Mustonen (CEO at Paptic)
Mari Granström (CEO at Origin by Ocean)
Jussi Sainiemi (Partner at Voima Ventures)16:00 - 16:30 CAETS communications prize [PII]
18:10 - 22:45 Late Evening Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Note: Room for 40 people, register for the excursion here!
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Public symposium “Carbon Neutral Technologies and Society”
8:00 - All Day Registration [Porthania, Lobby. Address: Yliopistonkatu 3] (8:30 - 9:00 Coffee)
9:00 - 11:30 Neste Session: Novel sustainable and scalable solutions for transportation and chemicals [Porthania, PII]
Moderator:
Teija Laitinen, Project Manager, Neste
9:00 - 9:15 Petri Lehmus (Neste) - All solutions are needed
Development of novel sustainable and scalable solutions based on
9:15 - 9:35 Fanni Laurila (Neste) and Juha Lehtonen (VTT) - Lignocellulosics
9:35 - 9:55 Aino-Maija Lakaniemi (Neste) and Dorothee Barth (VTT) - Microalgae
9:55 - 10:15 Clara Lizarazo and Geronimo Watson (Neste), Maarten de Milliano (Maatschap de Milliano) - Novel vegetable oils10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 10:50 Jarmo Kela (Neste) and Ilari Aho (Uponor) - Plastic waste
10:50 - 11:10 Suvi Veräjänkorva (Neste), Teemu Lindqvist (GTK) and Pekka Pohjanne (VTT) - Renewable hydrogen
11:10 - 11:30 Anton Punt (Neste) and Juha Lehtonen (VTT) - Power-t-X11:30 - 13:00 Lunch [Porthania]
13:00 - 14:10 Panel discussion: Carbon Neutral Technologies and Society [PII]
Moderator:
Riikka Heikinheimo (Confederation of Finnish Industries)
Panelists:
Juhani Damski (Ministry of the Environment)
Petri Lehmus (Neste)
Peter Lund (Aalto University)
Ilona Lundström
Andrea Ramírez Ramírez (Delft University of Technology)
14:10 - 14:30 Closure [PII]14:45 - 18:45 Council Meeting [Porthania, P673] (16:30 - 16:45 Coffee)
19:30 - 23:00 Conference Dinner [Old Student house. Address: Mannerheimintie 3]
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8:00 - 9:00 Info desk open [Porthania, Lobby]
TWO OPTIONAL TECHNICAL TOURS AVAILABLE:
9:00 - 15:30 ExpandFibre tour
Tentative schedule:
9:00 Bus leaves from Helsinki city centre (exact starting point TBC)
9:30 Tour starts at VTT Bioruukki
11:30 Lunch
13:00 Tour at Aalto ABio
15:00 Tour ends, transportation towards Helsinki city centre
15:30 Arrival back to Helsinki city centre (exact point of arrival TBC)9:00 - 11:30 Solar Foods tour
Tentative schedule:
9:00 Bus leaves from Helsinki city centre (exact starting point TBC)
9:30 Tours starts at Solar Foods
11:00 Tour ends, transportation towards Helsinki city centre
11:30 Arrival back to Helsinki city centre (exact point of arrival TBC)
Photo: Jussi Hellsten
Cocktail reception, Monday 18:00 - 19:30 Helsinki City Hall
You’re most welcome to join our cocktail reception, hosted by the City of Helsinki at the City Hall on Monday at 6 pm.
Sign up for our Tuesday evening excursion to Suomenlinna!
A historic sea fortress offering cultural heritage, scenic views, and exciting maritime history. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Optional ExpandFibre tour on Thursday 9:00 - 15:30
VTT Bioruukki pilot centre is an innovation platform for new bio-based products and circular economy solutions. It offers unique expertise and piloting capabilities all under one roof. In the laboratories and pilot plant, customer organisations of any size can develop and scale up innovations and processes, accelerating their innovation cycles.
Bioruukki is one of Europe’s largest open access pilot facilities, with a unique combination of pilot-scale process development units and R&D services. Customers looking for recycled raw materials or new business opportunities through scale-up can test different solutions and generate data to support investment decision-making.
Our areas of expertise include thermochemical conversions, industrial chemistry, hydrometallurgy, biomass processing and biomaterials. With all the necessary modelling and piloting capability under one roof, VTT Bioruukki delivers optimal solutions from initial development to end products.
Aalto ABio
Aalto ABio is the main research infrastructure of the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at Aalto University’s School of Chemical Engineering enabling bio and circular economy.
The Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems (Bio2) is at the forefront of forest products technologies and cutting-edge biotechnology. Ultimately, the activities in Bio2 result in innovative products and solutions for applications ranging from construction and textiles to biomaterials, energy and biomedicine.
Optional Solar Foods excursion on Thursday 9:00 - 11:30
Solar Foods is a Finnish food technology company on a mission to revolutionise global food production.
Visit at Factory 01 of Solar Foods. Factory 01 is no ordinary production site – it’s a world-first. It’s where, for the first time in the history of modern food production, protein will be manufactured from inception to completion under a single roof.